The network engineer where I work was trying to get CommunistCast to acknoledge that his cable modem had died...
After going through the basic turn it off/turn it on again/turn it off, but for longer now/turn it on again while standing on your head that he knew to do before calling, the tech thought for a minute...
"Okay, take the ethernet cable out of the modem and the computer, reverse it, plug it in, and then let's try it!"
On the other hand, when I was at CompUSA as one of their cash-office yahoos, we had a cash register (NT based) die. It would POST, and NT would get as far as saying go to hell in hex (.2 seconds post-POST). Store support in dallas kept trying to get us to unplug/plug cables and "then try it! I still can't ping..." We eventually told them call us back when they had a clue, and when they called back... they had us leaving it unplugged for longer before turn it back on.
I'm pretty sure that the linux version of AIM uses Oscar too. Couldn't you sniff and checksum that instead of aim.exe? Plus the linux version of aim is a heck of a lot easier to install in linux than the windows version of aim (using wine, perhaps?).
Why would we want to run an OS in an OS? I can think of a few reasons...
For one, it's a perfect way to debug web pages. I can start up VMware for Linux and preview the things I work on in Netscape/Linux, Netscape/Win98, and IE5 all at the same time. And when I fix the page, no nasty time wasted rebooting to see that the last fix I made broke the way the page appears in one of the above browsers.
I imagine that an OS in an OS is also useful for isolating viruses and buggy software too. Or would you prefer to try out that nasty new bug that flashes your bios and erases your partition table on your real computer?
I suggest that you check out the VMware site to see their propaganda on the issue. They had some good points the one time I actually read them. Some silly ones too, but that's PR for you.
Actually, Wine can run Office2k, or at least the Word part of it. I've tried it myself and it's mostly stable and usable. Well, at least for the short time I played with it it never crashed (which is more than I could say for it running in Windows98).
Somebody used to have some screenshots of it working, but it seems that they're gone now.
Come on, he has a buttload of spelling mistakes all over. I'm sure that "billg" uses Outlook and its built-in spelling checker, especially if he is sending an email to the entire company.
Also, I think a microsoft intern posted something elsewhere about this not being good form for a M$ internal email...
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The network engineer where I work was trying to get CommunistCast to acknoledge that his cable modem had died...
After going through the basic turn it off/turn it on again/turn it off, but for longer now/turn it on again while standing on your head that he knew to do before calling, the tech thought for a minute...
"Okay, take the ethernet cable out of the modem and the computer, reverse it, plug it in, and then let's try it!"
On the other hand, when I was at CompUSA as one of their cash-office yahoos, we had a cash register (NT based) die. It would POST, and NT would get as far as saying go to hell in hex (.2 seconds post-POST). Store support in dallas kept trying to get us to unplug/plug cables and "then try it! I still can't ping..." We eventually told them call us back when they had a clue, and when they called back... they had us leaving it unplugged for longer before turn it back on.
He's on dialup, remember ^_^
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I'm pretty sure that the linux version of AIM uses Oscar too. Couldn't you sniff and checksum that instead of aim.exe? Plus the linux version of aim is a heck of a lot easier to install in linux than the windows version of aim (using wine, perhaps?).
For one, it's a perfect way to debug web pages. I can start up VMware for Linux and preview the things I work on in Netscape/Linux, Netscape/Win98, and IE5 all at the same time. And when I fix the page, no nasty time wasted rebooting to see that the last fix I made broke the way the page appears in one of the above browsers.
I imagine that an OS in an OS is also useful for isolating viruses and buggy software too. Or would you prefer to try out that nasty new bug that flashes your bios and erases your partition table on your real computer?
I suggest that you check out the VMware site to see their propaganda on the issue. They had some good points the one time I actually read them. Some silly ones too, but that's PR for you.
Somebody used to have some screenshots of it working, but it seems that they're gone now.
Come on, he has a buttload of spelling mistakes all over. I'm sure that "billg" uses Outlook and its built-in spelling checker, especially if he is sending an email to the entire company.
Also, I think a microsoft intern posted something elsewhere about this not being good form for a M$ internal email...
S'all pretty silly to me.